MASTERY: Sea Voyagers of the Pacific 

I sailed in a Traditional Hawaiian Sailing Program in Highschool and can 100% validate the accuracy of this video.... Well done 👍🏽! Makes me proud to be a Polynesian.

Just incredible 😮 absolutely incredible.

The Polynesians were such courageous, knowledgable navigators. In the Marshall Islands, wooden maps have been found showing ocean current locations in relationship to islands. Unmatched skill. Great video!

I am in awe. So impressed. Just goes to show you, Europe and Asia do not have a monopoly on great human discovery and mastery of certain skills. Wonderful video.

I am from the Titan tribe of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (Melanasia). My ancestors are some of the great seafarers and build huge canoes that can carry up to 50 people. They travel long distance and canoe is their home at sea. They use the stars, the sun, the moon, the big waves, the seagulls to plot their chart. Today we have descendants of some of our people in Yap Island in Micronesia.

If anyone was curious, the westerners learning from the Micronesians were the Hokulea crew from Hawai'i. With the knowledge they learned, they brought it back to Hawai'i and launched a cultural renaissance in the Pacific Islands by sailing around the world in traditional canoes with traditional methods.

Beautiful video. A story, well told. We sometimes lose track of our spiritual connection to the universe. Thank you for remembering us.

Awesome video dude as a Polynesian (Samoan, Cook Island, Tahitian) I learnt a lot more in this vid than I did growing up 😂.

They navigated using the stars 🌟

I am so proud being Māori. Yes these stories were handed down to us. Even when we left east polynesia

Great video I see comments on Melanesia Polynesian Micronesian Is all one with Te Moana We are all one people in Te Moana nui a kiwa not separated by Te Moana but once connected by it One Pacifica tge white man called us these names to separate and segregate us from each other

Even after the europeans discovered the pacific people's multi hull design it STILL took them another few hundred years to figure out it was better. Only in the last couple of decades are live aboards all switching to catamarans.

The narrative from 8.30min onwards was very inspiring

I love your work Ali! Keep doing what you do!

Fascinating!

Absolutely fascinating! 🤩💖

Wow you went deep, beautiful video. Mahalo

Beautiful video, it felt like time itself paused while I was watching this. Thank you for sharing our story in a respectful and deep Light !

A full video on the Austronesian expansion would be a good topic to cover

thank you

Being a Decendant of Fafaki Tahi ( The Tongan Blind Navigator ) this makes me Proud the world is finally finding out who the Real Navigators were!!! 🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴

Do not forgot the old ways. Learn them and pass them on. The future of humanity may well have to rely on them.

Awesome video Ali!

He said storage , my bro we invented the double hull sail boats, the boats you now call Catamaran, make us appear dumb

"Over the centuries they devised a chart". They actually never had charts, or even a written language. Directions were remembered in song.

great video

a lot of times they were actually sailing against the trade winds of the tropical and subtropical latitudes

James cooked used the navigators to map out the pacific then colonized the pacific ....tatics

Nice analysis bro. One thing I would correct is that "fear" drove or forced us to travel the seas because in fact we see the ocean as our Ancestor, so there was no fear, we know we descend directly from nature and creation itself which is why we had that knowledge of navigation using the skies in the first instance. We feared nothing, not even death as we knew we transcended to the non physical intangible realms where we came from to return the the energies of our Ancestors when we leave our physical bodies anyway. We view & respect our natural environment as our esteemed elders & looked to them for guidance in all aspects of life because we were fully connected physically mentally and spiritually. & no offence, but everything indigenous peoples knew is literally direct evidence that a humanoid god in a white robe did not create everything in existence lol

Thank you!

Samoa baby!

Mastery is a great book. I see you read directly from it. Great video nonetheless.

This was fascinating.

Love this

Thc man very powerful

This is how we will navigate space travel

I’ve Saul across the Pacific From Hawaii. It difficult to land south of Oregon. HI East to OR, long but prevailing route. SoCal West to HI fast and easy.

Could you do a video on the Carribean and South America?

You have to keep in mind that it's not hard to find a volcanic island when it is erupting. The smoke plume tells everyone for miles exactly where the island is located. I'm not devaluing the incredible navigating ability, I'm just saying the statistic improbability of finding Hawaii or Easter Island gets way easier when you have a huge beacon telling you exactly where it's located. People never seem to consider this extremely obvious fact in these videos. You also forgot to mention that they used their testacles laid along the bottom of the boat to sense the most slight changes in conditions. Good video I enjoyed watching.

The area was known as Manu'a tele not Oceania... that is what Europeans called it ! Facts ! And the technology is not from the stoneage it is of modern age . Facts !

Lovett

why have you got nz in a different colour as they are also part of polynesia????

Proud to be an Austronesian descendant

The ultimatum of Polynesian Celestial and hydrologic navigation is to become the instruments of the firmament called moina Avai,,,container of water, reference to Pacific Ocean. To acquire and possess the talent come from over 40 yrs of training leading to the tittle of navigator,,,Rangatira,,,ranga= to weave,,,,tira = direction or bearings...to reach the highest is call ,,,one have recieved the MANA, super conductive to the planet.magnetic senses....

“Taera” How does it derive for anyone curious in this space.

💀idk about other Islanders but where im from some of us do

yeah.. 'tanja' sail.. my nation traditional headgear

Pourriez vous mettre la traduction en français quelle frustration de ne pas comprendre

beautiful! By "economic factors", you meant crypto. haha.

Papa Mau put polys on the map 🗺️ and he ain’t even Polynesian 😂😂😂

MāriTime, remove the O.

People have traveled to Antarctica and found reminisce of large canoes and the wood was made from wood only found on mainland New Zealand and carving it's been lost in history but they were their at some point along their travels

We the austronesian people connected by water in the current of our ancestors.

"Aboard" not "abroad" a vessel. Whi is this narrator?

This power starts with afrika and is not yor story to tell

if they were that good at sailing they would have been very good at trading and conducting business with other people groups they've encountered as well

Ancient FIlipinos Invented the outrigger and can feel the water undercurrent by means of their lower organ

the same stars that our ancestors used are still above us now, makes me question the Globe.

I will say it again Polynesians were traveling near and around Antarctica before Europeans were even able to wipe their own ass and Russians could even pick their nose so do some research people